On Saturday, The Grand Rapids Press’ blog reported on Coaster Brook Earth First! and our tabling at Festival of the Arts in downtown Grand Rapids:
When 21-year-old Ryan Brady donned a fish costume Saturday afternoon, it was more than an in-the-spirit-of-Festival gesture. He and fellow members of a local Earth First chapter used the event to spread its message about a subject that may have seemed obscure to some Festival-goers: a proposed sulfide mine in the Upper Peninsula that would threaten a coaster brook trout population.
Hence, the costume.
Fellow member Richard Johnson, 23, of Grand Rapids, said the group, set up on a sidewalk near Ottawa Avenue and Lyon Street, had been getting positive responses.
“Nobody’s really pro-sulfide mining,” Johnson said.
